by cmas | Mar 19, 2012 | News, Reports
Birika!!! That’s the Swahili word used by teachers, students, and community members to name the tea pot asterism in Sagittarius. With dark skies (magnitude 7 on the Great World Wide Star Count chart) it was great fun finding deep sky objects during a month-long teaching experience in northern Tanzania.
In October Chuck Ruehle returned to Africa for a second year of teaching astronomy, optics, and light. He shared his love of astronomy and left almost 250 pounds of equipment and resources with five secondary and two elementary schools on Mt. Meru (4,566 meters). Each of the seven schools received either a 50mm Galileoscope or a 70mm Vixen Space Eye telescope, a tripod, three or four modern eyepieces, and other astronomy related materials. Traveling most of the time by Land Rover, he often lived off the grid between fifteen hundred and three thousand meters while staying in the villages of Kikatiti, Kitefu, Ngarenanyuki, Songoro, and Mulala.
by cmas | Mar 19, 2012 | News, Reports
From mid June to early July Chuck Ruehle, a Racine Astronomical Society member, traveled from Wisconsin to Northern Tanzania in East Africa.
One of his activities included sharing telescopes and his love of astronomy with secondary students and village communities on Mt. Meru. Traveling and living between six and ten thousand feet the eight member mission delegation stayed in the villages of Mulala, Kilinga, and Kyuta. From their location on the side of Mt. Meru (4,566 meters) the delegation enjoyed viewing the dark skies, especially objects like the Jewell Box in the Southern Cross. They also arranged for stops at Ngarenanyuki, and Songoro secondary schools.
by cmas | Mar 19, 2012 | GTTP Sessions, News
Held in Calama, Chile, from January 9th to 14th, 2012 this edition of GTTP@Chile had 47 teachers participating. Teachers attended from all around Chile (Arica to Puerto Williams). Representing 18 cities (some of them are part of the American Corners net: Arica,...
by cmas | Mar 19, 2012 | GTTP Sessions, News
This year’s joint ESA and GTTP training workshop took place at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain. We had 20 secondary school teachers coming from 15 European countries. During the event participants had the opportunity to learn how to...
by cmas | Mar 19, 2012 | News
Global Astronomy Month 2012 (GAM 2012) in April is the world’s largest global celebration of astronomy since the unprecedented International Year of Astronomy 2009. Organized yearly by Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) since 2010, GAM 2012 brings new ideas and new opportunities, and again brings enthusiasts together worldwide, celebrating the AWB motto of “One People, One Sky.”
